Northwest Indiana

After months of public outcry, state and federal officials have agreed to investigate an alternative option for off-site disposal of contaminated sediment dredged from the Indiana Harbor and Shipping Canal. The decision comes after East Chicago residents and local environmentalists publicly objected...

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The Confined Disposal Facility at 3500 Indianapolis Blvd., East Chicago, July 16, 2017.

Local sports

Scores and highlights may be emailed to posttribsports@gmail.com Note: Schedules are subject to change because of weather and other factors. WEEK 7 FOOTBALL SCHEDULE FRIDAY'S GAMES Kankakee Valley at Andrean, 7 p.m. Boone Grove at Bishop Noll, 7 p.m. Bowman at Appleton West (Wis.), 7 p.m. Whiting at...

Danny Salazar's first experience as a goalkeeper involved saving a penalty kick — with his face. The Bishop Noll junior certainly has progressed a long way from that relatively humble starting point. The three-year starter's background includes training last fall at FC Barcelona's youth academy. "I...

Scores and highlights may be emailed to posttribsports@gmail.com Note: Schedules are subject to change because of weather and other factors. WEEK 7 FOOTBALL SCHEDULE FRIDAY'S GAMES Kankakee Valley at Andrean, 7 p.m. Boone Grove at Bishop Noll, 7 p.m. Bowman at Appleton West (Wis.), 7 p.m. Whiting at...

Courtney Krol is enjoying simply playing. The position is secondary. The Chesterton senior has always taken a team-first approach. And a right ankle injury that sidelined her virtually all of last season reinforced the notion that being on the field certainly beats the alternative. So center midfield?...

Photo galleries

Since its founding in 1906, the city of Gary, Ind., has experienced tumultuous periods of urban growth and decay with the rise and decline of U.S. Steel Corp., which is credited with creating the "Steel City." Take a stroll through the Tribune archives for a visual tour of the city.More

Since its founding in 1906, the city of Gary, Ind., has experienced tumultuous periods of urban growth and decay with the rise and decline of U.S. Steel Corp., which is credited with creating the "Steel City." Take a stroll through the Tribune archives for a visual tour of the city.

Less than 50 miles southeast of Chicago is a 15-mile stretch of shifting sands and towering dunes formed over the centuries by the forces of nature. The Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore was established as a federal park by Congress in 1966 after a 50-year struggle by conservationists. Take a stroll...

Indiana

Indiana University has suspended its spelunking club pending an investigation into how a freshman was locked inside a cave for 60 hours. The Herald-Times reports that university officials announced Monday that the Office of Student Conduct is conducting an investigation into how 19-year-old Lukas...

Orville Lynn Majors, who was convicted of killing six people while he was a nurse at a rural Indiana hospital, has died while serving a 360-year sentence, state prison officials said Monday. The 56-year-old Majors was having breathing problems and became unresponsive Sunday at the Indiana State...

President Donald Trump will be visiting Indianapolis to promote the Republican-led federal tax overhaul effort. Vice President Mike Pence says Trump's visit will be Wednesday. Pence made the announcement as he started a speech Friday afternoon in Anderson, but didn't provide more details. The visits...

A 19-year-old man who spent 60 hours locked alone inside a gated southern Indiana cave says he feels lucky to be alive. Indiana University freshman Lukas Cavar was on a spelunking trip to Sullivan Cave about 10 miles south of Bloomington when he became separated Sunday afternoon from 12 other members...

Lifestyles

Audiences don't have to be in New York City or Los Angeles, or even downtown Chicago, to be part of the unveiling of something new and exciting to watch a curtain rise revealing a story and characters coming to life for the first time on stage. Writers Theatre in Glencoe, Ill., under the leadership...

Learning to maneuver a sailboat is no easy task. But the Hammond Marina Community Sail-A-Way Program is taking the mystery out of learning this unique skill. The program was established in 1998 by sailing coordinator Ron Hudson, who had some experience in this arena. "I was asked to start the program....

In a column last month, I wrote about Gary's Cloverleaf Dairy, which provided home delivery throughout Northwest Indiana. From the early 1900s through the '50s, if you didn't live on a farm, it wasn't unusual for milk, cream and eggs to be delivered to the doorstep. At times, even farm wives had...

Opinion

Two combat veterans of the Vietnam War are now receiving the Congressional Medal of Honor, which they fully deserve. Army Green Beret Gary Michael Rose was the lone medic on Operation Tailwind, a 1970 secret special mission deep into Laos by South Vietnamese and United States troops. Though badly...

What's Quickly? It's where readers sound off on the issues of the day. Have a quote, question or quip? Call Quickly at 312-222-2426 or email quickly@post-trib.com. Some people keep saying that the bending knee is a disrespect to the flag and the country. OK, how many of you patriotic Americans...

What's Quickly? It's where readers sound off on the issues of the day. Have a quote, question or quip? Call Quickly at 312-222-2426 or email quickly@post-trib.com. Not a word from the White Horse about the complete destruction of our U.S. citizens in Puerto Rico. Oh that's right, they are brown...

One of the most frequent complaints sounded by those in organizational leadership roles is "my employees lack motivation." A 2014 study conducted by Bentley University, a private business school in Massachusetts, discovered nearly 75 percent of the employers believe new college graduates — millennials...

Crime

The trial of a former Porter County Sheriff's Department deputy charged with felony possession of child pornography will be moved to a surrounding county to ensure a fair trial, a judge ruled Monday. Defense attorney John Vouga argued before Porter Superior Court Judge William Alexa that his client,...

Valparaiso police said three theft suspects being tailed by officers into a local park reportedly fled from a moving car, which then crashed into a tree early Sunday. Police caught all three and transported them to Porter County Jail, according to a release from Sgt. Michael Grennes, public information...

A Gary man is dead and two others injured following a Saturday morning shooting that caused a car to go over a bridge at the westbound Grant Street on-ramp, police said. Indiana State Police spokeswoman Sgt. Ann Wojas said in a release that a man, identified by the Lake County Coroner's Office...

A Gary man was sentenced to 13 years for robbery in a shooting that killed a Merrillville man who was on his way to work. Devon Jarilone Brown, 24, will serve 11 years in prison, followed by two years on probation, in the 2015 shooting death of Cecil Pendleton, 55. His co-defendant, Latrell Dewone...

Crown Point Star

The following are stories as they appeared in The Lake County Star, a weekly newspaper started more than 150 years ago that covered all of Lake County and most of Porter County. The paper was owned and operated by the Wheeler family, descendants of Crown Point founder Solon Robinson. Items are...

Northwest Indiana's original local grocery stores are back into the hands of the families who started them. Jeff Strack is the President and CEO for the new Indiana Grocery Group. They operate several supermarkets only in Northwest Indiana. Strack spoke about the changes at the Morning Business...

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Remember when "taking a knee" in football was a way for a player to get a breather or watch from the sidelines? Ah, the good old days when our former national pastime, professional football, served as a needed reprieve from our current national pastime, presidential politics. The NFL has gone from...

If you don't know anything about little Goshen College just over the hill in Elkhart County, know its heart. The 650 students there understand what energizes and feeds their souls and offer no apologies for faith. It's Mennonite. It's pacifist. It calls members to undo racism with direct action as...

Mayor Rahm Emanuel declined to criticize two Chicago police officers caught on Instagram kneeling in support of nationwide protests, but said he understands why the department is disciplining them.“They were somewhat betwixt, between two different aspirations,” Emanuel told reporters Tuesday.The...

Dear Amy: My husband and I are retired. We married 12 years ago — several years after his ex had an affair and left him. My husband has two grown sons (around 40), one of whom is married. The married son and his wife essentially ignore that I exist. My attempts to talk to them directly about it...

Let's say you're a TV producer, and you have decided that - despite the fact that your show is a family sitcom - it's time to kill off the wife character after the first season. Things were going fine, but now your leading man's former female co-star is available, and, well, a lot of viewers would...

The conduct of detectives who convinced a learning disabled 16-year-old boy to confess to a rape and murder in the "Making a Murderer" case "made my skin crawl," a federal appeals court judge in Chicago said Tuesday. But if 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Diane Wood's harsh criticism of...

Whitney Young, one of Chicago’s top academic high schools, has canceled its football season with three games left to play because it cannot field enough players.Chicago Public Schools requires a 22-member roster for a varsity football team. While the Whitney Young Dolphins were at that level the...

Niles North High School in Skokie has suspended its varsity football season until further notice because of "a possible hazing incident," according to a statement on the Niles Township High School District website. In the statement, dated Monday, district officials say the school became aware of...

The Chicago Cubs will try to clinch their second consecutive National League Central title outright Tuesday night without second baseman Javier Baez and shortstop Addison Russell in the starting lineup against the St. Louis Cardinals at hot Busch Stadium. Baez suffered a right knee bruise in the...

The Cubs promise the new premier clubs under construction at Wrigley Field will allow some fans to "experience the magic of Cubs baseball and Wrigley Field in a whole new way." Fans purchasing season tickets for the clubs will certainly have to dip into their pocketbooks in a whole new way. Prices...

Like the Pittsburgh Steelers, the nation’s major NFL advertisers have decided to hunker down in their locker rooms and wait out the public opinion storm over the national anthem protests. Taking shelter are some of the country’s best-known consumer product-makers — Pepsi, Budweiser, Visa and McDonald’s...

In one of the biggest crackdowns on the corrupting role of money in college basketball, 10 men — including a top Adidas executive and four assistant coaches — were charged Tuesday with using bribes to influence star athletes' choice of schools, shoe sponsors, agents, financial advisers, even tailors....

In a poll, whites were asked whether the NFL players kneeling in protest during the national anthem are helping or hurting the cause of racial justice. No fewer than 85 percent said they are hurting it. Clearly, this offense to the anthem and the American flag is the worst possible way to change...

One week after prosecutors brought charges against five Wheaton College football players for the alleged hazing-related attack of a freshman teammate, the attention now turns to the court proceedings where both legal experts and recent history suggest a quick and palatable resolution. The student-athletes...

The Bears have had their hands full in September trying to slow some of the league’s best quarterbacks. Thursday’s trip into Lambeau Field will mark the fourth consecutive game in which the Bears will play against a starting quarterback drafted in the first round. The quartet of Matt Ryan, Jameis...

Facing assured defeat, Republican leaders decided Tuesday not to even hold a vote on the GOP's latest attempt to repeal the Obama health care law, surrendering on their last-gasp effort to deliver on the party's banner campaign promise. "The bill is dead as a door nail," said Sen. John Kennedy,...

The Bulls began training camp with double practice sessions Tuesday. And after the first one, the newly signed Nikola Mirotic focused on numbers. Not contract numbers. Weightier ones. Mirotic said he now weighs 260 pounds, up from the 237 at which he finished last season. It's all part of the fourth-year...

Are y’all ready to see your “Fixer Upper” ... for the last time? (Sob.) Chip and Joanna Gaines are saying goodbye after Season 5 of their wildly successful HGTV show, which put Waco, Texas — and shiplap — on the map. “It is with both sadness and expectation that we share the news that season 5...

The funeral for Kenneka Jenkins, the Chicago teen found dead in a hotel's walk-in freezer in Rosemont, will be held this weekend on the Far South Side, church administrators said Monday.The death of 19-year-old Jenkins has drawn national attention, with her family asking the FBI to investigate...

It can be easy to miss. The brick cottage tucked outside Wrigley Field's left field corner is unremarkably plain, a building overshadowed by the Cubs' sparkling new office building, the bustling fan plaza and the old ballpark itself. Most fans pay little attention to the house at 1053 W. Waveland...

The U.S. ramped up its response Monday to the humanitarian crisis in Puerto Rico, even as President Donald Trump brought up the island's struggles before Hurricane Maria struck — including "billions of dollars" in debt to "Wall Street and the banks which, sadly, must be dealt with." The Trump administration...

President Donald Trump on Tuesday lamented that Puerto Rico had been "destroyed" by Hurricane Maria but insisted that his administration is doing an "amazing job" in helping the U.S. territory recover. Trump, who has faced mounting questions about his commitment to addressing the island's plight,...

President Donald Trump's criticism of players who kneel during the national anthem sparked angry protests around the National Football League Sunday, as about 200 players sat, knelt or raised their fists in defiance. A week ago, just six players protested. Most NFL players on Sunday locked arms...

At least one person was killed and another critically injured when three semi trucks collided on eastbound Interstate 80 just west of Larkin near Joliet on Tuesday morning, according to the state police.The crash happened just after 6 a.m. One driver was dead on the scene, and another was airlifted...